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The Dumbo Film Festival (DFF) is an annual live event occurring in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Before the live event, the festival selects a number of annual official selections for each category through preselection competitions held throughout the year. All officially selected films will screen in Brooklyn, New York, during the annual live screening event, and a final ceremony will award the projects judged the best over the past year.
Emmy®-nominated actor, writer, director, and educator Graham Sibley has built a career spanning studio films, independent cinema, television, and the stage.
He earned an Emmy® nomination for Amazon Prime's DARK/WEB: Rideshare, has collaborated with Academy Award-winning filmmakers Clint Eastwood and Bill Guttentag, and portrayed Abraham Lincoln in Doris Kearns Goodwin's acclaimed docuseries Abraham Lincoln. He stars in the upcoming independent historical thriller Ashes to Iron, set against the Hungarian Revolution and releasing in 2027. A founding member of IAMA Theatre Company, he has originated roles in world premieres by Neil LaBute, Leslye Headland, and Micah Schraft. Sibley hosts The Actor's Director Podcast and is currently developing his original feature The Hoopsters, about a seventh grader who turns heartbreak into hope by rallying a team of “leftovers” for a shot at glory at the Gus Macker three-on-three basketball tournament.
READ MORE >>SHOW LESS >>Jonathan Whittaker is a Brooklyn-based director, producer, and educator whose work has taken him across more than twenty countries.
He has directed for Sony Pictures, Hyundai, Gillette, and Sports Illustrated, and produced features distributed on Amazon Prime and Netflix. For nearly two decades he served as Chair of Film Arts at the New York Film Academy, designing curriculum and leading workshops for emerging filmmakers in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. He has been equally at home on a commercial set in Lagos and in a story lab in São Paulo.
READ MORE >>SHOW LESS >>Marilyn Fu is the screenwriter of Rosemead, a feature film starring Lucy Liu and based on the award-winning Los Angeles Times article by Frank Shyong. The film earned her a 2025 Golden Horse Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay — one of Asia’s highest honors in cinema.
Fu also wrote The Honor List, executive produced by Zoe Saldaña and released by Lionsgate, and The Sisterhood of Night, based on a short story by Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Millhauser, for which she received the Tribeca Film Institute’s Creative Promise Award. In television, Fu was a writer on Peacock’s espionage thriller The Copenhagen Test, starring Simu Liu and executive produced by James Wan. She also adapted the bestselling novels of Karen Kingsbury into The Baxters, a faith-based family drama for Amazon/MGM, executive produced by Will Packer and Roma Downey. Earlier in her career, Fu was a writer/reporter for over 40 publications under Time Inc. She earned her degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she became the first recipient of the William Goldman Screenwriting Fellowship.
READ MORE >>SHOW LESS >>Marie-Rose Osta is a Lebanese screenwriter and director working across film, series, and video essays. Her latest short film Someday, a Child (2026) won the golden bear in Berlinale Shorts.
Her previous short, Then Came Dark (2021), won the Special Jury Prize at the 43rd Cairo International Film Festival and was selected for the 22nd BiennialSesc_Videobrasil. She also took part of collective, filmmaker-led feature projects, including Home Bitter Home (IFFR) and Letters (Clermont-Ferrand International ShortFilm Festival), and is currently developing a video essay as part of the collectivedocumentary-art project Trois Couleurs.She is developing her debut feature Mina and her series Echoes, supported by the Doha Film Institute. In 2024, she founded Les Flâneurs Films, an independent Paris-based studio supporting independent films and filmmakers.
READ MORE >>SHOW LESS >>Amin Pakparvar (امین پاک پرور) is an Iranian filmmaker and essayist. His work examines how contemporary Iranian archives can be reconfigured into potential histories that reshape understandings of the present and open up alternative futures.
He holds an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and his writing has appeared in publications including Found Footage Magazine. Pakparvar's documentary films have been supported by organizations such as Sundance institute and have received international recognition, including the Berlinale Crystal Bear.
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The tumultuous love story between two cinema stars at the height of their glory: Yves Montand and Simone Signoret. Soulmates bound by an unshakable love, they are forever haunted by Montand’s passionate affair with Marilyn Monroe. Immersed in the charm of old Paris—with its smoky cafés, bohemian nights, and timeless romance—the film captures the spirit of a lost era, where love, betrayal, and passion unfold like in a classic French film. Based on a true story.
Narrative Feature
Country: France
Runtime: 01:58:00
Director and writer: Diane Kurys
Key Cast: Roschdy Zem, Marina Foïs
Rapidly running out of life-saving insulin, diabetic GREG must hitch a ride from Brooklyn to Canada with his (recent) ex-fiance MARI. As Greg spirals, dangerously neglecting his health, he’s carried along by an eclectic group of fellow healthcare refugees (THE CARAVAN) in search of hope. Or medicine. Ideally both.
Narrative Feature
Country: United States
Runtime: 01:22:00
Director and writer: Jefferson White
Producers: Sharina Martin
Key Cast: Reed Birney, Constance Shulman, Doug Harris, Kathiamarice Lopez, Sharina Martin, Kristin Villanueva
Where: DUMBO House Library
When: November 19 - 7 PM
A super famous travel influencer, Santa Zeta, uses her social media as a cover to travel the world hunting pedophiles, obsessed with finding her little sister’s killer.
Narrative Feature
Country: Spain
Runtime: 01:57:00
Director and writer: Antonio Munoz de Mesa
Producer: Jordi Monedero Roiz
Key Cast: Nekane Otxoa, Arlette Torres, Iván VIllanueva, África Girón, Izoko
Where: DUMBO House Library
When: November 18 - 7 PM
In this manic comedy, Tim attends a positive masculinity workshop after being cuckolded online, however the workshop is raided by radical feminists intent on teaching the men on their own terms.
Narrative Feature
Country: United States
Runtime: 01:10:00
Director and Writer: Atticus Orsborn
Producers: Claire Mack, Noah Fowler
Key Cast: Taylor Gray, Jake Hart, Marie Faustin, Charlie B. Foster
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 20 - 11 AM
A mother’s search for her missing teenage son uncovers mass murder and a conspiracy of silence on America’s doorstep. The mystery isn’t who did the killings but why the US and Mexico are blocking justice from being served.
Documentary Feature
Country: United States
Runtime: 01:43:35
Director: Andrew B Glazer
Producers: Andrew B Glazer, Weston Phippen
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 11 AM
Misha, a photographer, uses his grandfather’s camera to recreate a family album, bridging the gap to a man he never met. Exploring absent father figures, he reclaims spaces once denied to his family. Through his lens, secrets and violence surface, yet memory’s fluidity offers a chance for redemption.
Documentary Feature
Country: Ecuador
Runtime: 01:18:00
Director: Misha Vallejo Prut
Writers: Misha Vallejo Prut, Mayfe Ortega Haboud
Producer: Mayfe Ortega Haboud, Isabela Parra Puente, Darío Aguirre Guevara Tiempo
Key Cast: Luz Elvira Vallejo, Jorge Vallejo, Andrés Cornejo Pinto, Christian Mejía Rodriguez, Emile Plonski Egas
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 4:30PM
Arriving at Roma’s Termini Station from Poland with 50 euros in his pocket, Damian makes his home atop an ancient Roman tower across from the station, conducting his search for love and family with contagious vitality all the while wielding a dangerously violent energy to all who surround him.
Documentary Feature
Country: Italy
Runtime: 01:26:00
Directors and writers: Gregorio Sassoli, Alejandro Cifuentes
Producers: Gregorio Sassoli, Guendalina Folador
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 20 - 6:30PM
Driven by a recurring urge to encounter strangers with her camera, the filmmaker begins to film her solitary Greek Cypriot neighbour Pete in the tower block in North London where they both live. Around the same time, her father in Denmark receives a cancer diagnosis requiring her to spend more time with him.
Documentary Feature
Country: United Kingdom
Runtime: 01:06:00
Director: Therese Henningsen
Key Cast: Peter Petrou, Povl Christian Henningsen
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 21 - 11 AM
baby/girls is a verité documentary set in Arkansas that explores teen motherhood in post-Dobbs America. Filmed over two years with unprecedented access inside a Christian maternity home for pregnant teens, the film follows three young women as they carry their pregnancies, give birth, and adapt to their new realities. Through their stories, the film offers a rare, unfiltered portrait of life at the intersection of girlhood and motherhood in the American south.
Documentary Feature
Country: United States
Runtime: 01:34:49
Directors: Jackie Jesko, Alyse Walsh
Producers: Melissa Leardi, Alex Waterfield, Kelly Rohrbach Walton
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 20 - 4 AM
INUNDATION is a poetic short film about the 11-year-old KINAN who lives with a fear of water after a traumatic experience during his escape from Syria. While his father HASAN works hard to build a new life in the Netherlands, Kinan clings to warm memories of home and refuses to accept his new surroundings. When Kinan is confronted with his trauma during his first swimming lesson, he realizes that he must overcome his fear to move forward in life.
Short Narrative
Country: Netherlands
Runtime: 00:14:47
Director and writer: Ilia ten Böhmer
Producer: Charlotte Spronk
Key Cast: Ali Doghem, Issam Almiski, Maya Jaber, Roos Bottinga, Noël Keulen, Moshe ter Riet
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 20 - 1:30PM
Kari, an indigenous girl who is afraid to laugh, meets Kera, who shares with her the myth of Kiraparamia, a woman punished by the gods for laughing at her husband. Kera reinterprets this and tells her that laughing set her free. Inspired, Kari uses laughter to confront those who bother her.
Short Narrative
Country: Colombia
Runtime: 00:13:33
Director and writer: Irati Dojura Landa Yagarí
Producer: Laura Giraldo Mira
Key Cast: Heluney Nerio Niaza, Wayra Andrea AguilarTascón, Escolástica Yagarí Gónzalez, Kipara Niaza
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 20 - 1:30PM
On the day of Reagan’s inauguration, a $100 bill travels through the underbelly of 1981 New York City.
Short Narrative
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:25:00
Director: Tony Mucci
Writers: Tony Mucci, David Mazouz
Producers: Scott Aharoni, Bryan Schmier, Tony Mucci, Tony Argento, David Mazouz
Key Cast: Francesca Scrosese, George DeNoto, Claudia Robinson, Jaxon Cain, David Mazouz, Tyler “HOOK” Senerchia
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 7:10PM
Amidst the mournful drive to a funeral, Maya wrestles with the burden of grief and the weight of guilt, while her partner senses an unspoken distance growing between them. Within the shadows of uncertainty, they’re forced to confront what remains unsaid.
Short Narrative
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:19:00
Director: Matty Peacock
Writers: Matty Peacock, Taylor Keokkeok
Producers: Jordan Vernes, Matty Peacock
Key Cast: Deb Never, Noa Fisher, Eli Brown
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 7:10PM
Denied the coveted set menu for dining alone at a famously exclusive restaurant, Frances strikes an unexpected deal with a stranger to access both the menu and a night of peace and solitude.
Short Narrative
Country: Australia
Runtime: 00:12:48
Director: Lindsay McDonald
Writers: Lindsay McDonald, Roslyn Zhang, Neisha Dallamora
Producers: Neisha Dallamora, Denis Curnow
Key Cast: Kathryn Hartman, Stephen Madsen, Bryn Chapman Parish, Emma Kew, Jonathan Lagudi
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 4:20PM
Two women, two generations, one shared trauma. One has been silent for over thirty years, the other for ‘only’ a year and a half. Where one retreats further into silence after a confrontation, the other finds the courage to break it.
Short Narrative
Country: Netherlands
Runtime: 00:16:51
Director and writer: Marnie Blok
Producer: Ellen Havenith
Key Cast: Henrianne Jensen, Sigrid ten Napel, Van Den Dop Tamar
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 21 - 11 AM
When a centerfold suffers a breakdown on her partner’s birthday, she must outwit her SmartHome on a blood-soaked path to having her own cake and eating it, too.
Short Narrative
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:17:13
Director: Alyssa Cody Garcia
Writers: Alyssa Cody Garcia, Simona Galant
Producer: Simona Galant
Key Cast: Lacey Claire Rogers, Chad Doreck, Justin Usle, Kristen DiMercurio
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 7:10PM
In a dark, overheated room, 9 young apprentice actors await the results of the final round of the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique. The unbearable wait will eventually provoke the most atrocious collective madness, the kind that destroys everything in its path, including those who started it.
Short Narrative
Country: France
Runtime: 00:26:12
Director and writer: Iliana Belkhadra
Producer: Alexis Bougon
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 20 - 6:30PM
Two hustlers in the Louisiana marshlands stumble upon a crab trap that surfaces cash in exchange for body parts. As greed overtakes reason, a ghostly medieval narrator reveals their descent as part of an ancient, mythic cycle of power and sacrifice.
Short Narrative
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:10:18
Director and writer: Clayton Nepveux iii
Producers: Clayton Nepveux iii, Miles Doleac
Key Cast: Jeren Mitchell, Martin “bats” Bradford, Michaela Lian
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 7:10PM
Ingrid, a single mother living with her daughter and grandmother in an eastern Slovak village where Roma face stigma, becomes a professional parent to a Roma girl to survive.
Short Narrative
Country: Romania, Slovakia
Runtime: 00:14:30
Director: Erik Jasaň
Writers: Erik Jasaň, Marta Parlatore
Producer: Erik Jasaň, Marian Crisan
Key Cast: Ela Lehotská, Oľga Solárová, Klára Sviteková, Mariana Kroková, Andrej Šoltés
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 20 - 4 PM
Seven’s a downtrodden Junior Creative at a cosmic agency that creates worlds. When he’s unexpectedly gifted the opportunity to create his dream world, he finds himself in a life or death race against the clock to overcome his creative block before his head explodes.
Short Narrative
Country: United Kingdom
Runtime: 00:15:00
Director, writer: Edem Wornoo
Producer: Danielle Goff
Key Cast: Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Kiran Sonia Sawar, Tom Forbes, Kobna Holbrook-Smith
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 20 - 1:30PM
Felix, a young man from Brussels, dresses as a knight each day to walk the streets of modern-day Brussels. Gradually, he becomes a social icon, aptly called Cichotte, both in public and online, where he livestreams to an ever-growing audience. Lucy, his neighbour, begins to take notice.
Short Narrative
Country: Belgium
Runtime: 00:15:27
Director: Pieter Crauwels
Key Cast: Felix Heremans, Nell Geeraerd
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 20 - 1:30PM
In Aqueduct, two half-brothers who have never met are brought together by the death of the father they never shared. Set against the charged, unpredictable world of the racetrack, buried truths surface and tensions sharpen, forcing them into a reckoning neither asked for. It's about inheritance without intimacy and identities shaped in absence. It asks a simple but urgent question: what can an older brother pass on to a younger one before his time runs out?
Short Narrative
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:27:00
Director: Travis Burgess
Producer: Gabe Munitz-Alessio
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 21 - 1:30PM
A freshly unemployed millennial singer masquerades as a therapist to pay his overdue rent.
Short Narrative
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:17:02
Director: Danielle Beckmann
Writer: Raji Ahsan
Producers: Raji Ahsan, Danielle Beckmann, Lisa Donmall-Reeve, Timothy Reese, Dana de Celis
Key Cast: Raji Ahsan, Lida Darmian, Dana Powell, Lucie Arnaz, Alec Baldwin
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 7:10PM
The filming of the club’s movie is over, and Minho is now sorting through the moving boxes he had put off until now. Having only focused on what he wanted to see, Minho now faces the reality that has slowly crept closer. What is he sorting through in this moment?
Short Documentary
Country: Republic of Korea
Runtime: 00:13:00
Director: Minho Kim
Producer: Sebin Kim
Key Cast: Minho Kim
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 1:30PM
In her high school’s 1940s archives, philosophy teacher Isabelle discovers traces of Eva Freud, Sigmund Freud’s granddaughter. Her investigation reveals, between Nice, Paris, Marseille and Washington, a tragic story that resonates with the life experiences of today’s French, Georgian and Ukrainian high school students.
Short Documentary
Country: Francia
Runtime: 00:49:02
Directors and Writers: Isabelle Sieurin, Arthur Quaranta
Producer: De Gaulle Eid
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 21 - 1:30PM
In Iran, to be a woman is to be born in resistance. In this intimate self-portrait documentary, Sahara Moeini tells her story—and that of millions of others: a childhood under surveillance, a youth scarred by fear, a life shaped by revolt. Made of personal archives, found footage, and memory, Born a Soldier is a cry against erasure, and a tribute to those who refuse to bow.
Short Documentary
Country: Iran
Runtime: 00:19:00
Director: Sahara Moeini
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 20 - 1:30PM
Markus – whose great-great-great-grandfather invented the nutcracker – makes nutcrackers for a living, as did each of his forefathers between him and the great inventor. Markus discusses his life decisions.
Short Documentary
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:09:25
Director: Jack Raese
Key Cast: Markus and Tristan Füchtner
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 1:30PM
Tens of thousands of ultra-orthodox Jewish schoolchildren in Brooklyn are being robbed of a legally-mandated education in English, math, science and history. As a result, they graduate without knowing who George Washington was or that the earth moves around the sun — and find it difficult or impossible to become independent adults.
Short Documentary
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:39:59
Director: Joe Kolman
Producers: Joe Kolman, Elana Sigall
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 20 - 11 AM
15-year-old Barbara leaves behind the Venezuelan crisis and embarks on a journey to traverse South America, seeking better life conditions in Chile. She recalls the night she crossed the Andean Plateau at 4,000 meters above sea level, struggling against biting cold and exhaustion but guided by a spiritual presence that wanders like the wind.
Short Documentary
Country: Brazil, Chile, Colombia
Runtime: 00:17:10
Director: Matías Rojas Valencia
Writer and producer: Françoise Nieto-Fong
Key Cast: Bárbara Flores
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 4:20PM
Seeds of Imagination examines what happens to authorship when art moves from private creation into public space. Following GRAMMY Award–winning multidisciplinary artist Zeph Farmby, the film traces a single painting from its conception in the studio to its public activation during the Dumbo Drop, one of Brooklyn’s largest cultural events. As the work becomes subject to collective interpretation, spectacle, and institutional visibility, the artist confronts the limits of intention, ownership, and control. Concluding with an artist talk at Dumbo House, the documentary frames imagination as a contested site shaped by audience, context, and power, positioning art not as a fixed object but as a living social process.
Short Documentary
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:19:54
Directors: Zeph Farmby, Tyson L. Adams, Christopher Jefferson
Producer: Zeph Farmby, Tyson L. Adams, Christopher Craig Jefferson
Key Cast: Zeph Farmby, Ayana P Farmby, Alexndria Sica, Mitchell Glover
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 4:20PM
Breaking the Cycle takes you inside 4Eskuela, a vibrant hip-hop school in Medellín, Colombia, where students and teachers unlock the power of self-expression through dance, while competing for the title of Medellín’s top breakdancer.
Short Documentary
Country: United States, Colombia
Runtime: 00:13:00
Directors: Farah Otero-Amad
Producers: Farah Otero-Amad, Delilah Davi
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 20 - 1:30PM
After eight years of caring for his mother with severe dementia, a son struggles through their daily care routine. Recorded voicemails serve to show the progression of the disease, underscoring the frustration, isolation and burnout that comes with intensive caregiving.
Short Documentary
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:12:00
Director/Writer: James Pellerito
Producer: David Barba
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 7:10PM
In a world that values smooth edges, Jade is a jagged soul—unapologetically unique, constantly rubbing against the grain of society’s expectations.
Experimental
Country: Japan
Runtime: 00:07:33
Director, writer, producer: Becca Willow Moss
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 1:30PM
In a British-Ghanaian household bound by tradition and religion, a young girl lives under the oppressive control of her abusive father. At the family dinner table, heated arguments reveal the deep rift between them as they confront the scars of their shared history.
Experimental
Country: United Kingdom
Runtime: 00:09:52
Director: Daniel Gurton
Producer: Harriet Thomas
Key Cast: Kwame Asafo-Adjei, Catrina Nisbett
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 1:30PM
Neva was born blind but has a surgery as a teenager to see for the first time. She finds the experience difficult and confusing but is guided by her surgeon and psychologist. She falls in love with color and slowly begins to engage with her new sense. Based on real case studies, Agnosia is a first-person visual interpretation of what it might seem like to see for the first time.
Experimental
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:27:52
Director, writer, producer: James Autery
Key Cast: Asia Sosnowski, Jonathan Hyland, John Rosenthal, Lisa Hatch
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 21 - 11 AM
Babyspice begins where everything starts to crack. It’s the story of a person — of a generation — teetering in the aftermath of a rupture, as the world slowly unravels around them. Rather than fleeing from pain, they choose to face it, move through it, transform it. In a society that hides its wounds instead of healing them, they search for another, more honest path.
Experimental
Country: Belgium
Runtime: 00:20:13
Director: Anouk Rubens
Key Cast: Juliette Moro, Malou Mullier
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 1:30PM
Nsala plays with colonial archives and contemporary footage to fictionally recount the story of a couple recruited to work in a mine under colonial rule. Rather than simply interpreting a life suspended in a colonial archival image, this film attempts to transcend the past by blending reality and imagination.
Experimental
Country: Democratic Republic of Congo
Runtime: 00:10:13
Director: Mickael-Sltan Mbanza
Producer: Petna Ndaliko katondolo
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 1:30PM
The vibrant artwork and brief life of 1970s artist Seth Fishman is brought to vivid life by his younger brother.
Experimental
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:06:29
Director/Writer: Michael Fishman
Producer: Herbert Fishman
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 1:30PM
A collection of segments about how the one-child policy affects individuals who experienced it firsthand. Stories about abandoned daughters, privileged sons, and fractured families.
Animation
Country: Netherlands
Runtime: 00:03:38
Director: Afan Zeng
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 11 AM
At the end of a long and hard day’s work, Puustinen receives a few coins as a reward. Puustinen immediately goes on a spree. Matti keeps growing, and Puustinen tries desperately to please Matti.
Animation
Country: Finland
Runtime: 00:10:04
Director: Päivi Hirsiaho
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 20 - 1:30PM
“Sundays with Beatrice” presents a deceptively warm portrait of an elderly woman recounting her Sunday routine. But something contrasts with her gentle delivery.
Animation
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:01:56
Director: Hunter Fine
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 11 AM
The history of Latin America has been written in blood, but also in pride.
Animation
Country: Canada
Runtime: 00:07:49
Director: Yaimel Lopez Zaldivar
Producer: BC Art Council
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 1:30PM
In the sea, a man swims.
As he does, memories come to the surface.
From his early childhood to his life as a man, all his memories are linked to water. Some are happy, some glorious, some traumatic.
This story will be that of his last swim.
Animation
Country: France
Runtime: 00:15:00
Director: Florence Miailhe
Producer: Ron Dyens
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 1:30PM
Timely and relevant, Zanana is an experimental animated documentary that covers the dehuminization and survivors guilt unique to the palestinian experience.
Animation
Country: Norway
Runtime: 00:05:55
Director: Islam Qraiqe
Key Cast: Ibrahim Qraiqe, Majd Musleh, Islam Qraiqe
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 1:30PM
When the children of a quaint Parisian village are terrorized by a sinister threat, a remarkable dog emerges as the unlikely hero, until a shocking revelation changes the town forever. Inspired by real events.
Animation
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:13:02
Director and Writer: Jon Portman
Producers: Andrew Ackerman, Doug Rogers, Sandi Todorovic
Key Cast: Hannah McKechnie, Christian Johansen, Henry Schrader, Mary-Alice Farina, Jerome Charvet
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 20 - 1:30PM
Magical Realism. A third-grade student who's selectively mute and a grieving 80-year-old school volunteer discover that some of the deepest conversations only require a single word.
Animation
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:11:15
Director: Daniel Neiden
Writers: Edward Jordon, Daniel Neiden
Producers: Edward Jordon, Daniel Neiden, Bill Plympton, Owen Andrejco, Steven Cambria
Key Cast: Bruce Vilanch, Parker Allana Hughes
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 1:30PM
In a city swallowed by recurring storms of darkness, its residents survive by hiding in shelters whenever the black winds descend. Fear has become routine.
One day, a mysterious stranger offers the townspeople a miraculous light - a radiant gift capable of dispelling the darkness and safeguarding the city. From his tower above, the city’s watchman recognizes the immense power hidden within the light. But instead of sharing it, he claims it for himself.
Animation
Country: Israel
Runtime: 00:07:05
Director: Dima Tretyakov
Writer: Tamir Kugman
Producer: Eli Birinbaum
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 1:30PM
The gentleness of ordinary lives: the city, a house, a warm interior. Outside, nature stretches peacefully with its forests, rivers, and fields. From their semicircular chambers, men argue over territories on maps, as if they were sharing a cake. The decision is made: war is declared. From his podium, a man presses a button, triggering an explosion. This gesture sets off a barrage of bombs and plunges the world into chaos. Production lines go into overdrive to manufacture weapons, while money flows freely, fueling this macabre trade. Bulldozers crush trees, giving way to devastated landscapes. The brutality of war imposes itself on screen.In a city swallowed by recurring storms of darkness, its residents survive by hiding in shelters whenever the black winds descend. Fear has become routine.
Animation
Country: France
Runtime: 00:04:25
Director and Writer: Loup Blaster
Producer: Hirundo Rustica
Where: Producers' Club
When: November 19 - 11 AM
